The first English translation of BERLIN by the great French poet Jules Laforgue, whose works greatly influenced T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Shortly before his death, Laforgue, who has been called the French Keats, was appointed the daily French Reader' to the Empress Augusta, a descendant of Catherine the Great and a German princess who despised most things German. This book is a precise, witty detail of everyday Berlin life in the 1880's.'